Thanks for the description. Ive seen a couple of other videos, but couldnt understand why she stalled, with a good boiler and strong exhaust. Proves how badly overgrown our railways have become. Great video too, thanks 👍👍👍👍
It's such a shame when the magnificent Clun is brought to a standstill on Hemerden Bank Liam, but what a performance from her on the rest of the journey. Excellent work from you and Phil Liam...it's a 10/10 from me....Bob
Hi Liam (& Phil). Great to meet up over the two days, you put together an excellent record of events as usual. I found a comment on my post interesting from @Bobbedward who is always at the west mouth of Dainton tunnel as he works close by. He says that something very similar happened inside the tunnel on the Friday and the loco ended up wheel-spinning to get the load through, he also said it was the slowest train he had ever seen there and he has seen them all for years! So maybe it was an underlying problem of supplying sufficient vacuum when using maximum regulator and cut-off i.e. a vicious circle. Best regards, Alan (& Margaret)
Many thanks Alan, I think the 25mph slack through Newton Abbot was key to the summit speed at Dainton. It was great to catch up on Saturday. Regards, Liam
Excellent video Liam and Phil. Shame about the brakes bring the Castle to a stop. On this special tour to set a speed record. Great filming. Kind regards C&A
Excellent video and good to find out what the issue was on the climb to Hemerdon. Seemed a bit odd the way she just crawled to a halt in some of the other videos I've seen further up the bank from the bridge, but the lower down shot gives that bit of extra information and like you say, you can clearly hear the brakes dragging as she passes the camera.
Superb Liam , plenty of drama on Hemerdon with clag galore on a warm day. Hopefully the diesel brigade won’t say one should have been on to start with 😞🤞
It literally doesn't make a difference, though. People seem to think that simply having a diesel on the back at all is some offense to the steam loco and that it's doing all of the work, all of the time, every time. But it's not, it only pushes when it has to, in situations like this one for example. Other than that, it's just another thing on the back of the train, and it even matches the coaches in this case. Diesels on steam tours have been normal since the 1990s, why do people still make a fuss over it even when it's either doing nothing or literally saving the train - and others - from disaster?
What a shame. Out of the locomotives and crews control and neither diesels nor electrics are immune to breakdowns. Still a beautiful sight and sound. Love the Castle Class. We've heard of troublesome trucks, whoever heard of troublesome coaches?
Superd video, as ever. Thank you, Liam. I am slightly confused by your comments about the diesel 'standing back'. I thought, after watching other footage, that the diesl stayed on until Bristol?
Cheers, David I believe I mentioned about the diesel easing back once it helped to restart the train at Hemerdon. You're right, it did stay on the back til Bristol.
It’s because it’s 120 years since city of Truro broke the record of 100mph on rails so to commemorate the engines historic run all GWR engines have been fitted with the headboard Z48
Z48 was the reporting number for the railtour on 9th May 1964, for which 4 Castle class locomotives were used, 7029 being one of them. This railtour was to commemorate 60 years since that railtour.
Thanks for the description. Ive seen a couple of other videos, but couldnt understand why she stalled, with a good boiler and strong exhaust. Proves how badly overgrown our railways have become. Great video too, thanks 👍👍👍👍
It's such a shame when the magnificent Clun is brought to a standstill on Hemerden Bank Liam, but what a performance from her on the rest of the journey. Excellent work from you and Phil Liam...it's a 10/10 from me....Bob
Liam & Phil, The usual enjoyable content. Liam - good to catch up at Hemerdon and I managed to sneak on to your video at the end. Regards, John
Hi Liam (& Phil). Great to meet up over the two days, you put together an excellent record of events as usual. I found a comment on my post interesting from @Bobbedward who is always at the west mouth of Dainton tunnel as he works close by. He says that something very similar happened inside the tunnel on the Friday and the loco ended up wheel-spinning to get the load through, he also said it was the slowest train he had ever seen there and he has seen them all for years! So maybe it was an underlying problem of supplying sufficient vacuum when using maximum regulator and cut-off i.e. a vicious circle. Best regards, Alan (& Margaret)
Many thanks Alan, I think the 25mph slack through Newton Abbot was key to the summit speed at Dainton. It was great to catch up on Saturday. Regards, Liam
Great selection of shots and audio, a grand day out by the looks of it!
Excellent video Liam and Phil. Shame about the brakes bring the Castle to a stop. On this special tour to set a speed record. Great filming. Kind regards C&A
Excellent video and good to find out what the issue was on the climb to Hemerdon. Seemed a bit odd the way she just crawled to a halt in some of the other videos I've seen further up the bank from the bridge, but the lower down shot gives that bit of extra information and like you say, you can clearly hear the brakes dragging as she passes the camera.
Brillaint video! I saw her at Swindon.
Excellent footage there Liam and Phil, off the Castle, on a very warm day. Shame she stalled on Hemerdon Bank, but she did a brilliant performance.
Great videos. The early shots on Hemerdon certainly 'puts the lie to' the myth that GWR engines didn't make black exhausts!!
Grey video mate. Good to catch up at Hemerdon.
Awesome video, saw her at Taunton. Keep it up!
Superb Liam , plenty of drama on Hemerdon with clag galore on a warm day. Hopefully the diesel brigade won’t say one should have been on to start with 😞🤞
It literally doesn't make a difference, though. People seem to think that simply having a diesel on the back at all is some offense to the steam loco and that it's doing all of the work, all of the time, every time. But it's not, it only pushes when it has to, in situations like this one for example. Other than that, it's just another thing on the back of the train, and it even matches the coaches in this case. Diesels on steam tours have been normal since the 1990s, why do people still make a fuss over it even when it's either doing nothing or literally saving the train - and others - from disaster?
Cheers, Steve
No doubt the black smoke will be an issue too.
Great video, saw her struggling like that coming up out of Coalbrookdale a few years ago, she is still a beautiful machine
That Kazakhstan coal is apparently better than it looks, though I'm still not sure if Churchward would approve
What a shame. Out of the locomotives and crews control and neither diesels nor electrics are immune to breakdowns. Still a beautiful sight and sound. Love the Castle Class. We've heard of troublesome trucks, whoever heard of troublesome coaches?
Superd video, as ever. Thank you, Liam. I am slightly confused by your comments about the diesel 'standing back'. I thought, after watching other footage, that the diesl stayed on until Bristol?
Cheers, David
I believe I mentioned about the diesel easing back once it helped to restart the train at Hemerdon. You're right, it did stay on the back til Bristol.
What caused the dragging brakes?
Netherless it’s great to see that Z48 headboard on clun castle like it did with nunney castle and the earl 10 years earlier
Why on earth were the brakes on on a bank like that?
Is it me, or does the rolling stock look a bit down at heel?
Is the set airbraked?
The set is not air braked, because 7029 is vacuum braked only, and also the Met Cam Pullmans are dual braked and the MK2s are vacuum braked only.
Can i ask why dose the engine have the Z48 headboard and what dose it mean?
It’s because it’s 120 years since city of Truro broke the record of 100mph on rails so to commemorate the engines historic run all GWR engines have been fitted with the headboard Z48
Z48 was the reporting number for the railtour on 9th May 1964, for which 4 Castle class locomotives were used, 7029 being one of them. This railtour was to commemorate 60 years since that railtour.
8 plus SC ONLY..no diesel back up !!!! Short of a Black 5 or Jubilee?!?!?!